Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Matt Kibbe: 'You Can't Have Freedom for Free'
On Rush, Ayn Rand, and Not Compromising. In 1977, I bought my first Rush album. I was 13. The title of the disc was 2112, and the foldout jacket had a very cool and ominous red star on the cover. As soon as I got it home from the store, I carefully placed that vinyl record onto the felt-padded turntable of my parents’ old Motorola console ... MOREAtlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt?
by Brian Doherty. A labor of love over money. John Aglialoro is a businessman, and a very successful one, named by Fortune magazine in 2007 as the 10th richest small business executive in the country. But his latest project is, he says, about “love.” It’s the film Atlas Shrugged III: Who is
John Galt?, the conclusion of a trilogy of movies based ... MORECraig Biddle: What Is Objectivism?
The philosophy of reason, egoism and capitalism. It is widely believed today that our moral, cultural, and political
alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular,
relativistic left—or to those of the religious, absolutist right—or to
some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s ideas are
supposedly either ... MOREObama’s SOTU Brings Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged to Life
by George Rasley. President Obama’s State of the Union address skillfully glossed over just what a sorry state the Union is in these days. Obama’s address, full of deceit and the obfuscation of any facts at odds with his hard-left secular agenda, stands out in its repetition of the threat to act without Congress as perhaps the most anti-democratic ... MORENick Gillespie: Ayn Rand Would Have Loved Kickstarter
The ultimate in 'value-for-value'. What does it mean that the makers of the final installment of a
three-part film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s controversial 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged are asking for donations at the crowdfunding site Kickstarter? Isn’t that the book where characters pledge to “never live for the sake of another man, to live ... MOREGive Back? It's Time For The 99% To Give Back To The 1%
by Harry Binswanger. It’s time to gore another collectivist sacred cow. This time it’s the
popular idea that the successful are obliged to “give back to the
community.” That oft-heard claim assumes that the wealth of high-earners
is taken away from “the community.” And beneath that lies the perverted
Marxist notion that wealth is accumulated ... MORENick Gillespie: 5 Myths About Libertarians
What you think you know is wrong. The specter of libertarianism is haunting America. Advocates of sharply reducing the government’s size, scope and spending are raising big bucks from GOP donors, trying to steal the mantle of populism, being blamed for the demise of Detroit and even getting caught in the middle of a battle for the Republican ... MOREDaniel Hannan: Statism Is Turning America Into Detroit
Ayn Rand's Starnesville comes to life. Look at this description of Detroit from today’s Observer: What isn’t dumped is stolen. Factories and homes have
largely been stripped of anything of value, so thieves now target cars’
catalytic converters. Illiteracy runs at around 47%; half the adults in
some areas are unemployed. In many ... MORE
Capitalism In No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages. It was only when governments intervened, either directly on behalf of workers or indirectly by empowering unions, that conditions improved. ... MORE
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